ST. JOAN OF ARC

FACTS

• Was born in 1412 Domremy, France.
• Said she began having visions from god when she was 12
• Very religious
• Frequently went to confession
• In May 1428, divine messages urged her to speak out

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• Spoke with Charles de Ponthieu
• The current leader of France
• Charles was impressed and gave her control of an army
• Within a year Joan had liberated French cities from English control
• For her leadership and exploits her family was granted nobility

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• French soldiers looked up to her
• Although she was captured a year later
• By Burgundian forces, then sold to the English

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• English tried her for witchcraft
• Trial initially held in public
• Became exclusive after she gave sharper answers
• Killed for witchcraft

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• Said that 10,000 people came
• Her ashes were spread in the Seine.

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• 26 years later she was declared innocent
• Officially a martyr
• Became a saint in 1920
• Still France's patron saint